Berthe Morisot, January 14, 1841–March 2, 1895, was a French painter and printmaker born in Bourges. After her family settled in Paris, she studied privately with Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and Joseph Guichard, copied paintings at the Louvre, and received landscape instruction from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Achille Oudinot.

Morisot first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1864. She participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and in seven of the group’s eight exhibitions, alongside artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro. She married Eugène Manet, the brother of Édouard Manet, in 1874.

Her works are held by the Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and other major public collections. The Musée Marmottan Monet holds the largest public collection of her work.

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